Your reports Find reports Should Theatre Have Limits? Should Theatre Have Limits? Rebecca Phillips, 29 September 2012 Becky Phillips, Claire Rattenberry, Julia Bolden, Marcello, Shaun. Emma, Mehrdad. - how far can you push limits, until an audience will leave? - Are you doing it to get a reaction? - What is classed as tabboo anymore? - shock factors/meaning. - ‘daring’; how far will you push yourself? - Concepts/Integrity. Is there a reason for it? - do you trust the person making it? is there any truth in the work? - being different for the sake of being different - postmodernism? - how far is too far? when does theatre become real? e.g. on stage torture. - Theatre being involving... - cross cultural variations. e.g. french/british cinema. - when does cinema becomes porn? - News broadcasting. why is personal information important to the general public? e.g. Syria. - can you trust the people delivering? - In the theatre, as an audience ‘you know its not real’ - Comfort Blankets. - Moral Codes. - How visible/invisible permanant/tempory are limits? - Who is in charge of ‘limits’? - Manipulation. - Burlesque / porn. at what point does performance stop?\ - Getting Carried Away... - Stanford Prison Experiment - begin as friends, eventually character role becomes too much. - Even if you know the story, expectations could change. - Pandoras Box. - Testing limits in life throughout adolescents to see where boundries are. - loopholes in boundries. when people say ‘no’ you find ways of getting round it. - Limits are nessisary to create boundries to cross. ‘rules are meant to be broken.’ - limits breed creativity. - Generational differences. what is okay now compared to the 60's. e.g. LGBT - wanting what you can't have. - In the UK today we are living in a time where most people are quite open to most things. Tags: staging, boundries, shocking, extreme, different, limits, deviation, tabboo, definition of art, morals, art, pandoras box